Twitter Opinion

As you know many celebs such as oprah and aston kutcher even britney spears have recently signed up for Twitter. A social networking site to post status updates. I and many others [whome have been using this service for a long time for many useful purposes] are getting irratated at this. So many Celebs are now signing up and posting tons of tweets. Do you know how much publicity Twitter getting from this?! Now what used to be a what the hell is twitter is now a hey do you have a Twitter?? Most kids/people who are now signing up have no clue about Twitter. I mean they know how to use it but they dont all understand how it works. Anyone can now see there updates! Lets say Joe tweets: hey im going to [insert a local place here]! Now anyone who wants to can see that tweet and go to that place. The next thing you know "Joe Somebody" is on the news because hes been reported missing! Now this is a little extreme I definetly has the chance of happening. What bothers me even more is the fact that Twitter is most likely paying these celebs to sign up for Twitter! I mean Im glad Twitter is getting a ton of attention but Im kinda mad that people who understand these issues and use Twitter as a Social Networking site are not getting to use Twitter the same as now every other kid at school is going "oooh im sooo coool i have a Twitter"! Not just that but Twitter can get you into a tun of trouble if your not careful and I think Kids who dont understand the dangers should be on it. And with Celebs signing up its not helping....

Twitter Review

Tweet Tweet! With a 140 Character limit Twitter is one of the new social networking sites that is rapidly rising up to the top. Pretty much if you haven’t used any of its competitors’ services (i.e. Facebook, and Myspace). They all give you the ability to post status updates. Pretty much short things like “going to the mall be back l8r”. Or “I just took a dumb now i want cereal”. Twitter is mostley just that. Status updates. To send a “tweet” (what Twitter calls sending a message) you can either tweet from the website from your cell phone via sms even from your iPhone. (Just search “twitter” on the App Store and there are a gazilion apps available.) You get a limit of 140 characters (letters numbers symbols etc.) to state what your doing. You can get all your friends on Twitter and you all can follow each other. Following someone or followers are the people you subscribe to and the people who follow your updates. There are so many other things you can do with twitter. But one of the most amazing things is how many times its helped solve crimes save peoples lives and secret intelligence! There was one story where a college student was in Egypt on vacation and his peers all used Twitter and knew this. He got arrested for taking a photo of an aincent demonstration and taken to jail. He was able to tweet “Arrested.” to all his 48 followers. They called UC Berkeley, the US Embassy and a number of press organizations on his behalf. He got released. But if it haden’t been for Twitter he may not be here today! Still tweeting but now with 1028 followers! But even though there is many good that comes from Twitter there still are many bads. You need to be careful what you post to the inerwebz any way but especially something moving as fast as Twitter or Facebook is really dangerous. Like the guy that got a good job offer and he was going to take it. But instead he had to tweet “man got a great job that pays good bucks even though the work sucks”! He lost the job... Twitter is a free service that I highly recommend signing up for as I tweet always to my 300 Followers! (Sign up at http://twitter.com and you can find my updates at: http://twitter.com/dawildkid) Just make sure you are careful as what you put up there ( no last names no like street names dont say where you live and dont put anything that gives anything related to your location away.) and you will be fine!